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- Richmond_Sixteen abstract "The Richmond Sixteen were a group of \"absolutist\" English conscientious objectors during the First World War. Conscripted into the British Army in 1916, they refused to undertake even non-combatant military duties. Brought together at Richmond Castle, Yorkshire, most not knowing each other previously, they were transported to France, where fifteen of them were court-martialled and formally sentenced to be shot by firing squad, but this sentence was immediately commuted to ten years' penal servitude. They were released in 1919.".